Antibiotic fashions

I read with interest your articles about superbugs and antibiotics (Inside Science, 19 July). In the 1990s we had the suggestion that people with congestive heart failure should be given antibiotics because of links between the condition and particular bacterial infections. Some who had received antibiotic treatment showed an improvement. It did strike me that such an approach, if applied to the wider population, may be in direct contrast to the guidance given to family doctors to prescribe antibiotics sparingly.

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